Silica, lead and asbestos training and communication

0:00 Intro

Silica, lead and asbestos training and communication, for the CHST exam. Every rule and number here is cited to its primary source, on screen.

0:11 Learning objectives

In this lesson, you'll learn to: state the training triggers for lead and asbestos, match each asbestos class to its training length, apply the owner and employer notification deadlines, and identify the required signs, labels, and content.

0:28 Hazard communication

All three standards plug into the hazard communication program, with access to labels and safety data sheets. Silica must address cancer, lung, immune system, and kidney effects. Lead covers reproductive/developmental toxicity, central nervous system, kidney, blood, and acute toxicity effects.

0:53 Silica training

Asbestos requires information on cancer and lung effects. For silica, each covered employee must be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding, not just attend. That includes health hazards and the specific tasks that could cause exposure. Also the employer's controls: engineering controls, work practices, and respirators.

1:16 Lead training

And the identity of the competent person, plus the medical surveillance program. Lead training has a clear trigger. Employees exposed at or above the action level on any day, or to lead compounds that may irritate skin or eyes.

1:37 Lead training content

Initial training comes before job assignment or the start-up date, whichever comes last. Then training is repeated at least annually for those at or above the action level. Lead training covers respirators and the medical programs. Respirator selection, fitting, use, and limits, plus medical surveillance and removal protection.

2:02 Asbestos training

Chelating agents: not routine, and only under a licensed physician. Respirators, medical programs, and chelating agents (not routine) are covered. A copy of the standard and appendices must be available. Asbestos training depends on the class of work. Class I, and Class II needing critical barriers (or equivalent isolation) or negative pressure enclosures, match the EPA worker course.

2:36 Asbestos training rules

Other Class II work with roofing, flooring, siding, ceiling tiles or transite takes at least 8 hours, hands-on. Class III: at least 16 hours, hands-on. If the competent person finds the EPA curriculum inadequate, training still includes hands-on work.

2:57 Asbestos communication

Class IV: at least 2 hours. Who is trained: anyone likely exposed above a PEL, and everyone doing Class I through IV work. Training comes before or at initial assignment, then at least annually, at no cost to the employee. And it must be conducted in a manner the employee is able to understand. Owners go first. Before work begins, building and facility owners determine the presence, location, and quantity of ACM or PACM. They notify prospective employers, their own employees, other employers on multi-employer sites, and tenants.

3:39 Signs and labels

Before work, employers inform owners, their own workers, and adjacent-area employers of location, quantity, and precautions. Within 10 days of finishing, employers tell the owner and next employers about remaining ACM or PACM, and final monitoring results, if any. Newly discovered ACM or PACM must be conveyed within 24 hours. Signs and labels are different tools.

4:09 On the job

Regulated-area warning signs read DANGER, ASBESTOS, MAY CAUSE CANCER, CAUSES DAMAGE TO LUNGS, AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY. Bag labels read DANGER, CONTAINS ASBESTOS FIBERS, MAY CAUSE CANCER, CAUSES DAMAGE TO LUNGS, DO NOT BREATHE DUST, AVOID CREATING DUST. 0 percent. Employees must be able to comprehend signs. You're the site safety lead on a school renovation. Crews will disturb old pipe insulation and flooring.

4:44 Common exam traps

First, get the owner's determination of ACM and PACM presence, location, and quantity before work starts. Next, confirm each worker's class-appropriate training is done before or at initial assignment. Where entered mechanical rooms hold ACM or PACM, the owner posts entrance signs. To the extent feasible, employees must comprehend them, for example with pictographs. Now, five traps that catch people on exam day. One: lead training is triggered by exposure at or above the action level on any day, or to skin- or eye-irritating lead compounds.

5:24 Recap quiz

Two: Class III is at least 16 hours. The 2-hour minimum is Class IV. Three: asbestos refresher training is at least annually. Four: 24 hours for newly discovered material. Ten days is the after-work report. Five: silica requires employees to demonstrate knowledge, not just attend. Question 1. Newly discovered ACM is found on a worksite. Within what time must the employer convey this? A: 24 hours. B: 10 days. C: Within one week. D: End of the shift. A. Within 24 hours, to the owner and other employers on the site. Question 2. What is the minimum length of Class III asbestos training, which must include hands-on training? A: 2 hours. B: 8 hours. C: 16 hours. D: 4 hours. C. Class III is at least 16 hours, hands-on. Question 3. A worker's lead exposure stays below the action level, with no irritating lead compounds. Is lead training required? A: Yes, annually. B: Yes, before assignment only. C: Not under the action-level trigger. D: Yes, every 2 years. C. The trigger is exposure at or above the action level on any day, or irritating lead compounds. Want to see where you stand on every CHST domain? com.

25 questions, free, no card. You get a readiness score for each CHST domain.